Isaiah 11:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 140:3 : 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
  • Isa 59:5 : 5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

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  • Ps 91:12-13
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    12 In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

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  • Job 20:16
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    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

  • Isa 65:25
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    25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

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    5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

  • Isa 14:29-30
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    29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

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  • Amos 5:19
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    19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Job 28:8
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    8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

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    9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

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    11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

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  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3 Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

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    4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

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    2 You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

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    30 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

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    38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

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    15 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

  • Deut 32:24
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    24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

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    4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

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    3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

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  • Job 20:14
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    14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

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